Family Life

We took the kids to an Easter program this afternoon at one of the area’s big churches. We were curious to see how the boys would behave, whether they’d be interested, bored, or what. Besides, Easter is an excellent time to focus on Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection, and we saw it as an educational opportunity. [...]

Today was our first normal Sunday in weeks. We went to the normal services at the normal times, participating in the normal activities. Last Sunday everybody was snowed in. The week before I was stuck in Frankfurt. Before that I was in Hungary. The Sunday before that we had bad weather and there was hardly [...]

Things at home are slowly returning to normal. Debbie and the boys are recovering from their illness and everybody feels a whole lot better. Everybody except me: I promptly caught the family cold as soon as I got back. I started getting the first tingles a couple of days ago, and by now those twitches [...]

I took the boys to the Auto Show today. I went with Daniel last year and he really enjoyed it. He’d been looking forward to it again this year. I wasn’t sure whether to take Joel. Daniel had been talking about it for weeks, but Joel hadn’t even asked if he would or could go. [...]

Today was Parent Participation Day at swimming class. That meant I was in the water with the boys and their instructors, instead of up in the bleachers watching. Daniel and Joel wanted to know how I was going to divide my time between them. They’re in different classes, though at the same time and in [...]